Knit boot



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KNIT BOOT.

Patented Dec. 3, 1889.

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KNIT BOOT.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARTIN V. BEIGER AND ADOLPHUS EBERI-IART, OF MISHAWAKA, INDIANA.

AKNIT BOOT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 416,54*?, dated December 3, 1889.

Application led September 19, 1887. Serial No. 250,092. (No model.)

To all who'm it may concern:

Be' it known that we,'MARTIN V. BEIGER and AnoLrHUs EBERHART, of Mishawaka, in the county of St. Joseph and State of Indiana, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Knit Boots and the Process or Method of Making the Same; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full and accurate description of the same.

In Letters Patent No. 367,333, granted to Beiger and Eberhart July 26, 1887, there is described and claimed a boot made wholly from woolen yarn spun so coarse that the entire quantity of stock required would beknitted into the boot at one operation.

This invention relates to an improvement on the mode of making knit boots described in the said Letters Patent; and it consists in substituting two or more loosely-twisted yarns of ordinary size for the single yarn described in said patent, whereby the quantity of stock to be put into the fabric may be varied at pleasure by increasing or diminishing the number of yarns passing together to the needle, instead of substituting yarn spun larger or smaller.

The advantages to be gained are, first, the strand which passes to the needle, being composed of several individual yarns not twisted together, consolidates and hai-dens equally well with the coarse single twist, and is less liable to be affected by imperfect places in the yarn, because such imperfect spots only affect one strand, and not the whole yarn.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lrepresents our boot in course of construction, showing the inode of knitting. Fig. 2 represents the same when finished, ready for fulling. Fig. 3 represents the boot completed.

A is the knitting-machine, which does not differ, except in size, from other knitting-machines in common use for knitting tubular goods.

B B are spools delivering their yarns together to the machine, whereby they are all knitinto the same stitches, and together constitute a single yarn with two or more separate strands. These strands, being actually separate and loosely twisted, all shrink and consolidate in the fulling-mill until their individuality is lost. This would not occur if they were twisted together, in the manner of double and twisted yarn, prior to being knit.

If desired, the thickness in different parts of the boot can be varied at will by addingto or taking away from the number of strands entering the needle, and this can be done at any moment. The colors also may be changed by substituting yarns of one color for yarns of another color at any time, and in this Way the tint or general color may be varied, or definite portions may be made of one color different from the color of others. This cannot be done in felt boots, or those partly knit and partly felt, and as the external appearance of the fabric when finished so closely resembles felt it is of the highest importance asameans for distinguishing the knitted from felted fabric.

Having described our inven tion,We claim- The hereindescribed method of making knitted seamless boots, which consists, essentially, iii-st, in knitting several loosely-spun yarns simultaneosly as one yarn through the same machine to form a mammoth boot having suflicient stock knitted into the foot and leg; second, in shrinking the same down to size by fulling; third, by finishing the same on tree and last, as set fort-h.

MARTIN V. BEIGER. ADOLPHUS EBERHART.

Witnesses:

WM. N. SCHINDLER, JOHN H. WARD. 

